Scientists debate whether current extinction rates mark a planet-wide crisis or reflect a more nuanced reality, highlighting ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

This prehistoric predator dominated the ancient landscape with its massive frame and bone-crushing bite and will offer guests ...

A fresh revision of the mosquito family tree 1 suggests that the insects are 100 million years younger than previously ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

The slowly rising numbers come after a decade of population declines. But threats including entanglement in fishing gear, ...

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...

Human activity may be setting the stage for the largest extinction event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

Gen Z entrepreneurs aren't waiting until they're rich to start giving back. They're building philanthropy into their ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...